Six on Saturday – Awakenings

Well, this is more like it. Stuff seems to be happening in the garden. Good stuff. That, to me, is the definition of spring. Positivity. And don’t we need it?! Shoots and blossom and frogspawn are useful allies in reminding us of stronger forces. We need less reporting by mainstream media on the deluded andContinue reading “Six on Saturday – Awakenings”

The Commonly Beautiful

In my previous mono-garden existence I enjoyed growing the unusual species, the less common cultivars, the few and far between.  Any plant I hadn’t come across before was irresistible to me, I actively sought out the rare, the hard to come by.  If a visiting dignitary either enquired after a cultivar, genus or even speciesContinue reading “The Commonly Beautiful”